Guardian Reverse Exchange 2025. Image shows Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan facing each other, gripping the Sundial between them.

The collection is live!

Your gift should be visible in the collection, or on your own AO3 page under "Gifts". Thank you all for another wonderful year of reverse exchanging and glorious fanworks! And thanks especially to our fabulous pinch-hitters

awanderingcoyote,

china_shop and

gavilan, who came to our rescue. ♥ ♥ ♥

We hope you enjoy your gift and the collection as a whole. Please remember to comment on your gift and thank your creator! If there are any problems, let us know ASAP.

Feel free to re-date your entry: edit the work, tick "Set a different publication date" and choose today's date. That way, your work will appear on AO3 as if posted today, rather than when you actually posted it.

Now have fun reading, looking and listening - go admire and enjoy!

*** Happy 520 Day! ***

Current Mood: happy

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We expect to open the 520 Day Reverse Exchange collection tomorrow at or shortly after 9pm UTC!

If you're like us, that means it's time to get some last-minute edits in. (You can find your entry via your Statistics page on AO3.) If you're not like us, congrats, and what's your secret? *g*

Only one more day to wait! *gets ready to break out the champagne^[1]*

^[1] Or water, or other non-alcoholic alternatives, for Shen Wei and other non-drinkers!

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The deadline for the 520 Day Reverse Exchange has passed, and the collection is full of fantastic gifts!

If you haven't yet filled your assignment and haven't received an extension, please contact us NOW by replying to your assignment email (please don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.

We may need to look for pinch-hitters over the next couple of days. If you're available, please keep an eye on this comm and your email. Our first port of call will be the other creators the recipient requested from, if those people said they might be able to pinch-hit.

Thanks so much to all our lovely participants for being a part of this! :D

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The 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is tomorrow! Please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection by 11:59PM UTC Tuesday 13 May! (What time is that for me?)

Your work must be complete to fill your assignment. It's fine to keep editing until reveals, but the first and each edited version must be a work that stands on its own.

If you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline and you haven't contacted us already, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.

General info, schedule and minimum requirements | Posting instructions

Thank you to everyone who's already submitted their entries, and good luck to everyone else for the final stretch! *\o/* *\o/* *\o/*

trobadora

Just a reminder that the 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is now one week away. Please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection by 11:59PM UTC Tuesday 13 May! (What time is that for me?)

Your work must be complete to fill your assignment. It's fine to keep editing until reveals, but the first and each edited version must be a work that stands on its own. If you're unsure how to post, see the instructions here.

If you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.

General info, schedule and minimum requirements

*cheers everyone on*

trobadora

How's it going, everyone?

Just a reminder that the 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is two weeks from now, at 11:59PM UTC on Tuesday 13 May. (What time is that for me?)

When you're ready, please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection. We're looking forward to everyone's creations!

(Actually, the first entry has already been posted! Congrats! \o/)

If you're unsure how to post, see the instructions here, and if you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (please don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.

General info, schedule and minimum requirements

*cheers everyone on*

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If you signed up for this year's 520 Day Reverse Exchange, you should now have received your assignment email. (If not, check your spam folder!)

What to do next:

Reply to your assignment email now, so we know you've received it. Please don't change the subject line.

If you have any concerns about your assignment, let us know ASAP by replying to the email. (Again, please don't change the subject line!)

Create a fanwork for your assignment. Please make sure it fits your recipient's requested canon(s), media, pairing(s) or character(s), and rating(s), and doesn't include anything they've said they don't want. Remember that specific scenarios and prompts are optional. Have fun!

Post your completed fanwork to the AO3 collection by 11:59PM UTC Tuesday 13th May! (What time is that for me?).

On the AO3 collection page, click "Post to Collection" at the top of the page. Enter your recipient's AO3 name under "Gift this work to".

If you need to host fanart or podfic on a different site, please make sure it's not visible/searchable on that site before reveals on 20th May.

To make edits to your work after posting, you can access it via your AO3 Statistics page.

If something comes up that means you can't complete your assignment by the deadline, please contact us ASAP so we can discuss an extension or, if necessary, find a pinch-hitter.

All entries will go live on Tuesday 20th May (520 Day). Please keep your assignment a secret until then!

General info, schedule and minimum requirements

We hope you enjoy creating for your assignment, and we can't wait to see what you come up with! *\o/*

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General info/rules/schedule post - please go there to ask questions if anything isn't clear.

Offers are closed!

This is the second part of the 520 Day Reverse Exchange sign-ups. If you made an offer on the last post, this is where you make your requests. (If you didn't make an offer on the last post, you're too late to sign up, sorry.)

You'll find our anonymous participant ads in the Google doc linked at the bottom of this post.

What to do:

Read the instructions fully before you make your requests.

Choose 3 writers/artists/fanwork creators from the anonymous participant ads. (Try not to choose yourself!)

Copy and paste the request form from the text box below into a comment, and fill out your request for each of your chosen ads. There are guidelines for the questions below.

Important: You can only request things (pairings, ratings, etc.) that your chosen writer/artist/fanworks creator has offered. If a request doesn't fit the offer, we'll ask you to rewrite and resubmit.

Participant ads will be removed from the Google doc when 3 requests have been received for that creator. Please refresh the doc and check that all three of your selected creators are available before you post your comment.

Comments are screened so only mods (

china_shop and

trobadora) can see them.

All requests must be made by 11:59pm UTC on Friday 4th April. (What time is that for me?) Then the mods will assign one of your chosen writers/artists/creators to create your gift. You'll receive your assignment by Wednesday 9th April at the latest.

( Make your requests here! )

If you have any questions about requesting or the exchange in general, please comment on the General info/rules/schedule post.

trobadora

Quick reminder that this year's 520 Day Reverse Exchange sign-ups close in three hours. If you've been meaning to sign-up, this is your last chance! :)

trobadora

Time's almost up! Sign-ups for this year's Guardian Reverse Exchange are only open for another 24 hours. If you haven't yet - now's the time. :)

Sign-ups are open until 11:59pm UTC on Friday 28 March 2025. (What time is that for me?)

Thanks to everyone who's already signed up! Come and join us - sign up with your offers now!

General info/rules/schedule

And if you're on Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr or elsewhere for fandom, please help get the word out by promoting the exchange there. We have a tumblr post you can reblog, a promo graphic and text on the General info post, or you can make your own.

trobadora

Sign-ups are still open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange, a multimedia exchange covering the Guardian drama, the novel and RPF.

This is a reverse exchange with a two-part sign-up process: first you make your offer, and then you choose from everyone else's anonymised offers to make your requests.

General info/rules/schedule

Come and join us - sign up with your offers! Sign-ups are open until 11:59pm UTC on Friday 28 March 2025. (What time is that for me?)

And if you're on Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr or elsewhere for fandom, please help get the word out by promoting the exchange there. We have a tumblr post you can reblog, a promo graphic and text on the General info post, or you can make your own.

trobadora

Sign-ups are still open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange, a multimedia exchange covering the Guardian drama, the novel and RPF.!

This is a reverse exchange with a two-part sign-up process: first you make your offer, and then you choose from everyone else's anonymised offers to make your requests.

General info/rules/schedule

Come and join us - sign up with your offers! Sign-ups are open until 11:59pm UTC on Friday 28 March 2025. (What time is that for me?)

And if you're on Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr or elsewhere for fandom, please help get the word out by promoting the exchange there. We have a tumblr post you can reblog, a promo graphic and text on the General info post, or you can make your own.

trobadora

Sign-ups are closed now. Thank you, everyone!

What is the 520 Day Reverse Exchange?

General info/rules/schedule post - please go there to ask questions if anything isn't clear.

If you're on Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr or elsewhere for fandom, please help get the word out by promoting the exchange there. We have a tumblr post you can reblog, a promo graphic and text on the General info post, or you can make your own.

How do I sign up?

You will find the sign-up form below. Fill in something for each point, giving as much info as you like. All comments are screened so only mods (

china_shop and

trobadora) can see them.

Please read this post, including the 2025 sign-up form, fully before you sign up. You will need to check back at this community between Saturday 29 March and Friday 4 April to make your requests. This sign-up form is the first of two steps.

Sign-ups are open until 11:59pm UTC on Friday 28 March 2025. (What time is that for me?)

What happens next?

On Saturday 29 March, mods post the info from the sign-up forms as anonymous participant ads on this comm.

You choose 3 ads from the list and make a request for each. (We'll remove each ad from the list when we've received 3 requests for that offer.)

Mods assign one of your requests to the relevant writer/artist/creator.

You receive one request made for your offer. This is your assignment.

The sign-up form

( under the cut! )

All comments here are screened (i.e. only visible to mods). If there is a problem with your sign-up, for example if you've missed any important info, we will reply to your comment or email you to sort it out.

Go forth and sign up!

Currently signed up: Acoyotewhowanders, amedia, AVAAntares, china_shop, facethestrange, Gatoveja, Gavilan, hideyseek, ishipallthings, Koschei_B, laCommunarde, shadaras, tehfanglyfish, tinypinkmouse, Trobadora, velithya, xk_s_reads

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520 Day Reverse Exchange General Concept

As the name says, this is a reverse exchange, also known as a Choose Your Writer/Artist/Fanwork Creator exchange. Instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating -- media, ships, tropes, etc.

You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads, and you make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating and what you want to receive.

You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offers.

You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

The 520 Day Reverse Exchange covers the Guardian drama, the novel, and real person fanworks about the actors. You can offer and/or request fanfic, fanart, icons, vids, podfic, meta, a remix of an existing fanwork, or fanart for an existing fanwork. Or any combination of the above! If there are other media you’d like to offer, please discuss with the mods by commenting on this post.
(Note that meta will need to be sufficiently transformative to meet AO3's rules, i.e. not a collection of canon facts.)

Hopefully this means you get an assignment that fits you like a glove, and just the gift fanwork you're looking for!

Participants who are under 18 must request and offer works rated General or Teen And Up only.

( How it all works )

( Schedule )

( Promotion )

Any questions? We're here to answer them. Ask in the comments to this post!

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The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2025!

520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is a bit like Valentine's Day. To celebrate, we're back with the seventh annual 520 Day Reverse Exchange. As the name says, this is a reverse exchange: instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating.
You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads.
You make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating.
You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offer.
You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

(An updated rules/info post will go up before sign-ups open, but here is last year's for reference.)

This year's schedule
ETA: everything's ready, so we decided to open sign-ups early and have a longer sign-up period. Hopefully this means more people will have a chance to hear about the exchange and sign up!

Sign-ups part 1 - offers: ~~Saturday 22~~ Sunday 16 March - Friday 28 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 29 March - Friday 4 April
Matching: Saturday 5 April - Tuesday 8 April
Assignments out: Wednesday 9 April at the latest
Deadline: Tuesday 13 May
Work reveals: Tuesday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Poll #32786 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2025

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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520 Day Reverse Exchange 2025

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Yay!
9 (64.3%)

I will definitely sign up!
7 (50.0%)

I might sign up
5 (35.7%)

I'm already thinking about what to offer
5 (35.7%)

I'm willing to post a promo to Tumblr/Twitter/Discord/elsewhere, to spread the word (we'll PM you a reminder)
7 (50.0%)

ETA: This post is also on tumblr now, if you'd like to reblog over there!

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